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Previous page Julia SLIWA Principal Investigator, PhD, CR, CNRS Team "Normal and abnormal motor control: movement disorders and experimental therapeutics" https://www.sliwalab.org https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2968-3920

Biography

Julia Sliwa has been recruited as a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Associate Scientist in 2019 and started the same year her research program at the Paris Brain Institute. Previously, she trained as a Kavli Post-Doctoral Fellow and a Human Frontier Science Program Post-Doctoral Fellow at The Rockefeller University in the Laboratory of Pr.Winrich Freiwald. She received her PhD degree from the University of Lyon following training at Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod under the guidance of Dr. Sylvia Wirth and of Dr. Jean-Rene Duhamel. Dr. Sliwa is a recipient of the Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award in Neuroscience, of the Young Researchers Bettencourt Prize and of the Association de Femmes Françaises Diplômées d’Université/Dorothy Leet Award. Her research has been featured in Scientific American Magazine and other international news outlets.

Research work

How do brains of social beings make sense of their societies? We are investigating the neural and neuronal mechanisms that enable transformation of social percepts into social concepts. For instance, we study how our neural representations of social concepts are abstracted from multi-sensory perceptions, how social networks are represented in the brain and how gestures are perceived during social learning. We use a combination of neuroimaging, neurophysiology, behavioral testing, and physiological recordings in animal models, healthy subjects and people with neurological disorders to pursue these questions.

Publications

  • Sliwa J, Mallet M, Christiaens M, Takahashi DY. Neural basis of multi-sensory communication in Primates. Ethology Ecology and Evolution. 2022. Special Issue "Interacting primates: the biological roots of human communication"
  • Sliwa J. Toward collective animal neuroscience. Science. 2021. 374, p397-398
  • The PRIMatE Data Exchange Global Collaboration Workshop and Consortium. Accelerating the evolution of nonhuman primate neuroimaging. Neuron. 2020. 105, 600-603.
  • Sliwa J, Freiwald WA. A dedicated network for social interaction processing in the primate brain. Science 356, 745-749.
  • Sliwa J, Planté A, Duhamel JR, Wirth S. Independent neuronal representation of facial and vocal identity in the monkey hippocampus and inferotemporal cortex. Cerebral Cortex. 2016. 26, 950-966.
  • Full list: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=erfZGnwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao